Will Tel Aviv Take the U.S. to War - Again?

By
Jeff Gates

Tel
Aviv long ago proved its mastery at waging war "by way of deception" - the
operative credo of the Mossad, Israel's intelligence and foreign operations
directorate. Yet its latest operation reveals a need to freshen up its
repertoire of dirty tricks. As Israel's patron, those of us who live in the U.S.
are painfully familiar with such duplicity. Yet the recent frequency of its
frauds renders their latest treachery remarkably transparent.

Consider the similarities. First a network of pro-Israelis fixed the
intelligence that induced us to invade Iraq in support of an expansionist agenda
for Greater Israel. Who can forget Iraqi WMD, scary images of mushroom clouds
and secret meetings in Prague? Who can fail to recall the yellowcake uranium
from Niger and those ominous warnings of "high-level contacts" between secular
Baghdad and the religious fundamentalists of Al Qaeda?

Even
Colin Powell was duped when pro-Israelis in the G.W. Bush administration
associated his credibility with false U.N. testimony avowing Iraqi mobile
biological weapons laboratories. Though all was deception, it had the intended
effect. To others, it looked like the U.S. was at fault. Yet our policy-makers
are no better than the information on which they must rely-and the allies they
are persuaded to trust.

The
same old Israeli duplicity is back but with a new twist. And, importantly, ably
aided by a new commander-in-chief. As with the deception that induced the
invasion of Iraq, war in Iran also requires weaving a web of consensus beliefs
from threads of deceit.

This
time there is less emphasis on fixed intelligence than on false
impressions-albeit with the same goal: to advance an Israeli agenda. Though Tel
Aviv's goals for Iran are now within reach, the success of this latest operation
is not yet assured.

The
Cast

The
stage-managing of this presidency has been a wonder to behold-even when compared
with G.W. Bush. This latest production involves two key insiders, both Jewish.
Rahm Emanuel, son of an Irgun operative and the most influential chief of staff
in decades, served in the Israel Defense Forces during the 1991 Gulf War.
Communications Director David Axelrod oversaw a campaign strategy that garnered
78% of the Jewish vote.

It's
not difficult to imagine the source of the chutzpah that flew Obama from a
speech in Cairo-meant to mollify Muslims-directly to a Holocaust photo-op at a
death camp in Germany. Communication-wise, which event left the deeper
impression? Was that trip meant for the 1.3 billion Muslims miffed at six
decades of U.S. support for Israel's occupation of Palestine? Or did these
presidential image-makers aim to please the American Ashkenazim that fondly
refer to Barack Obama as "the first Jewish president"?

Who
but pro-Israeli insiders could insert in a U.N. speech by the first Black
president a racist reference to "the Jewish state of Israel"? That code phrase
was certain to provoke Muslims worldwide, particularly those whose lands Israel
occupies. Even Harry Truman, a political product of Kansas City's corrupt
Pendergast political machine, deleted that theocratic and racist reference when,
in May 1948, he extended U.S. recognition to an enclave of violent Jewish
extremists soon after they ethnically cleansed 400-plus Palestinian villages.

The
Plot

So now
comes a new twist on an old trick. First Barack Obama was persuaded by his
advisers to lambast Iran for a covert nuclear site-days after it was revealed by
Tehran. So already it looks to the public like yet another U.S. president is
relying on flawed intelligence. When Iran promised cooperation with
international inspectors, Tel Aviv quickly countered that Israel may well attack
anyway. Why not? After all, the U.S. attacked Iraq. And clearly U.S.
intelligence is no better now than then, right?

So
what if Iran, like Iraq, has no WMD? That misses the point. A nuclear-armed
"Jewish state" of five million can still attack a Muslim nation of 75 million
using U.S.-provided, laser-guided bunker-buster bombs. Tel Aviv can then point
to the similarity of its patron's conduct when the U.S. launched a preemptive
attack based on false intelligence.

Winning is not the point. There is no military solution in the Middle East. The
point is to create yet another crisis and yet another provocation. And,
importantly, to once again make the U.S. appear guilty by association. Absent
another crisis that misdirects attention and consumes scarce intelligence
resources, Americans will soon enough be forced to confront an uncomfortable
fact: Israel, its lobby and its supporters deceived us to wage its wars.

Americans are not stupid. We are, however, perilously misinformed. Yet that too
traces to pro-Israelis in mainstream media. Absent another crisis, Americans may
well awaken to the essential role played by a complicit media in these serial
deceptions.

The
Consequences

Iran
is not about nuclear weapons. Neither was Iraq. Iran is about the need for
serial well-timed crises to advance Israel's expansionist agenda. No one dares
bring that agenda to a vote. Or even mention it. Thus the treachery required of
those whose numbers are few but whose ambitions are great. What choice do they
have but to wage war by way of deception?

Yet
this time Americans are more aware of how such duplicity can progress in plain
sight. They have access to Internet news. Wade through the online clutter and
the analyses found there can expose the common source of this deceit, including
its media support.

Plus
Americans are hurting. They know something is fundamentally amiss. Yet they are
understandably wary of conspiracy theories. They want facts. As the facts point
to a common source for much of what is wrong, those complicit are scrambling to
obscure that source. That scrambling, in turn, is making that source steadily
more transparent.

To
date, this political product of Chicago's Ashkenazim has been a catastrophe for
national security. And for an economy poised to decline at an accelerating
pace. Yet he's ideal for those skilled at waging war on nations from within. And
for those proficient at inducing us to freely embrace the very forces that now
imperil our freedom.

We
Americans may persist on this path, seduced by the allure of empty eloquence. Or
we could awaken. If so, this latest president could find that, like recent
predecessors, his legacy is relegated to infamy. Given the course Obama has set,
Americans may yet take matters into their own hands to protect what he is
allowing this purported ally to imperil.

About the author: Jeff Gates is author of Guilt By
Association, Democracy at Risk and The Ownership Solution. See www.criminalstate.com